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Why I Don 't Me?

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Why Me? Leah was lying in bed wondering why life was this way- sad, disappointing.... When her mom comes in.“Hey honey, just came to tell you dinner’s in five minutes. Ok bye,” and she leaves the room.
“Mom, why don’t you ever talk to me about my life or my day like every other mom? You know I have problems at school that I don’t have anyone to talk to about! Now how do you think I would feel? Oh, I forgot you don’t even think I have problems in my life, don’t you?!”
“Oh, sorry honey I didn’t know. I’ll go check dinner and be right back.”
She was about to leave the room when Leah says, “Wait, you know what? Forget what I just said, okay?”
“Um… Okay. If you need anything just tell me though.”
She leaves the room and Leah waits for her footsteps to die away. She needed peace, time alone… Lying awake, she eventually dozed off and went to sleep….. small floating balls of light were the only brightness in the place she was in.
“Hello,” she asks “anyone here? Where am I ?”
All of a sudden, an open book and a pencil appear on her lap. She picks them up and words appear on the open page saying
“ Take the pencil and write the troubles in your life,” Leah reads and thinks about this and says,
“ Well, I might as well. I have no one else to tell my life about.” She picked up the pencil and started writing. “My mom never asks about me and-”
“Stop right there. Do you know why?” The book writes back
“Well, no unless it’s that she hates me but, no,” Leah said forgetting that she had to

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